Personal
Most people$29
was $49
Yours forever, on 2 Macs. Updates for a year.
Comparison
Flit vs Aqua Voice
Same idea, nothing uploaded
Reads your screen, in the cloud
The short answer
Both apps read your screen to write better text; Flit is the one that does it without uploading anything. Aqua sends that context to its servers and charges $8 to $24 a month with an account. Flit reads the focused field on your Mac, holds it in memory for exactly one dictation, writes it nowhere, and costs $49 once. If the thing on your screen is the reason you want dictation to be smart, it is also the reason you should not send it anywhere.
Side by side
 Flit
| Aqua Voice | |
|---|---|---|
| Where transcription happens | Your Mac | Cloud |
| Price | $49 once | $8/mo Pro, $24/mo Max |
| Free tier | No, 7-day trial | Yes, 1,000 words |
| Account required | No | Yes |
| Platforms | macOS only | Mac and iOS |
| Screen context | Read locally, memory only | Yes, core feature |
| Works with no internet | Fully | No |
| Exact times and commands | Fixed rules | Model decides |
| Languages | 99, 25 streaming | 49 |
Compared against Aqua Voice’s own published information. “Not stated” means they do not publish that detail. Prices change, so confirm before you buy.
Why people pick Flit
- The screen context never leaves your Mac. That is the whole difference between the two products.
- One payment rather than $8 or $24 every month.
- No account.
- It works with no connection at all.
- Times, punctuation, and dictionary words are handled by fixed rules, so the same input always produces the same output.
In fairness
- It runs on iPhone as well as Mac.
- A free tier of 1,000 words lets you judge it before paying anything.
- It publishes an accuracy figure of 97.3% for its Avalon model and claims 5x faster than typing.
Listed because they are true. None of them changes the answer if you dictate on a Mac and want your words to stay there.
What actually decides it
“Your screen is its dictionary” cuts both ways
Reading the screen is what makes dictation feel intelligent: names from the thread, terminology from the document, code from the file. It also means the most sensitive thing on your machine is the input. Aqua does this in the cloud. Flit does the same thing on your Mac, keeps the capture in memory for exactly one dictation, never writes it to disk, and skips secure fields entirely.
Comparing speed claims honestly
Aqua states 5x faster than typing, from 230 words per minute against 40. Flit states 4x, from 124 words per minute measured across real dictations against about 31 for composition typing. The gap is mostly the baseline: a speaking rate is not the same as finished text arriving, and typing while you think is slower than copying text. We chose the more conservative pair, which is why our number is lower.
The verdict
Choose Flit if
the context it reads is the exact thing you do not want uploaded.
Join the waitlist7 days free · $29 once, up to 2 Macs · macOS 14 or later · Apple silicon
Choose Aqua Voice if
you want it on iPhone too, or you want to try it free before deciding.
Questions
Does Aqua Voice run on your Mac?
Its site does not say the processing happens on your Mac, and the screen context feature implies it is handled on their servers. Flit runs on your Mac only, and you can check that with a network monitor.
Which reads context better?
We cannot benchmark theirs honestly, so we will not claim to. What we can say is where the reading happens: Aqua in the cloud, Flit on your Mac in memory for one dictation.
Is there a free version of Flit?
No free tier. There is a 14 day trial, with no card and no account.
Pricing
One price. Yours forever.
You will buy Flit once and it is yours permanently, on up to 2 Macs, with 12 months of updates. No subscription, no account, no upsell.
Launch pricing
First 100 licenses
Once they are gone, Personal steps to $39, then $49. Lifetime goes to $99.
Lifetime
$79
was $99
Yours forever, on 2 Macs. Every update, forever.
Not on sale yet. These are the prices Flit will launch at. macOS 14 or later · Apple silicon. 7 days free first, no card, and a 30-day refund.
Both include
- Every feature. There is no Pro tier and nothing is held back.
- All 99 languages and every local model, downloadable free.
- Developer mode, snippets, the dictionary that learns, a style per app.
- No account. Flit never asks who you are.
Team
Per Mac$195
$39 per Mac, once, with a year of updates. One key for everyone.
$34 per Mac from 10.
Join the waitlist
More than 50? Let us talk.
How a team license works
- Licensed per Mac. Ten people with one Mac each is 10 Macs. A laptop and a desktop count as 2.
- One key with exactly that many activations. Free a seat yourself when a Mac is replaced.
- Nothing to provision and nothing to audit. No accounts, and nothing leaves any Mac.
12 months of updates, one renewal date for the whole key.
macOS 14 or later · Apple silicon
Questions? The pricing page answers the usual ones. If a future major version is ever a paid upgrade, you will hear it from us before you pay for anything.
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